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The Smart Wife (Hardcover)
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The Smart Wife (Hardcover)
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The life and times of the Smart Wife--feminized digital assistants
who are friendly and sometimes flirty, occasionally glitchy but
perpetually available.Meet the Smart Wife--at your service, an
eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices.
This digital assistant is friendly and sometimes flirty, docile and
efficient, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. She
might go by Siri, or Alexa, or inhabit Google Home. She can keep us
company, order groceries, vacuum the floor, turn out the lights. A
Japanese digital voice assistant--a virtual anime hologram named
Hikari Azuma--sends her "master" helpful messages during the day;
an American sexbot named Roxxxy takes on other kinds of household
chores. In The Smart Wife, Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy
examine the emergence of digital devices that carry out
"wifework"--domestic responsibilities that have traditionally
fallen to (human) wives. They show that the principal prototype for
these virtual helpers--designed in male-dominated industries--is
the 1950s housewife: white, middle class, heteronormative, and
nurturing, with a spick-and-span home. It's time, they say, to give
the Smart Wife a reboot. What's wrong with preferring domestic
assistants with feminine personalities? We like our assistants to
conform to gender stereotypes--so what? For one thing, Strengers
and Kennedy remind us, the design of gendered devices re-inscribes
those outdated and unfounded stereotypes. Advanced technology is
taking us backwards on gender equity. Strengers and Kennedy offer a
Smart Wife "manifesta," proposing a rebooted Smart Wife that would
promote a revaluing of femininity in society in all her glorious
diversity.
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